From Gerald (Gerry) Brown, Media Consultant in Hong Kong, the latest buzz on the Digital Broadcasters market in Asia-Pacific, South Asia and the Middle East covering the latest content and hardware moves in HDTV, 3G, IPTV, Mobile TV, terrestrial radio and TV, cable TV, broadband, satellite broadcast and streaming online.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Axon's Frame Synchronizer New at IBC 2006

AXON’s new product portfolio at IBC 2006 Amsterdam in September

Digital TV vendor, Axon Digital Design, based in Udenhout in the
Netherlands is to showcase several exciting new digital TV product
innovations at IBC 2006, including a range of top-quality, high-
definition format converters with Teranex algorithms. Making their
IBC 2006 debut are the HES20 SD/HD-SDI embedded Dolby E alignment
engine/frame synchronizer, the world’s first TWINS high-end HD-SDI to
SD-SDI/composite down converter, compact digital router series,
TWINS integrity checkers, and the world’s first hot-swappable,
integrated Dolby Digital encoder. The Dolby Digital Encoder (the
DDE51) breaks new ground in the integration of Dolby and HD
technologies.

AXON says the new and unique HES20 Dolby-E aligner and frame
synchronizer is a much-needed solution to a problem that occurs
frequently with Dolby E in modern SD and HD SDI embedded
infrastructures. Individual audio and video propagation-delay
problems can cause a time shift of the Dolby E stream with respect to
the SDI carrier (even when it is embedded).

Another interesting development from Axon is its NV8288 Digital Video
Router that saves precious OB-van space and weight. It no longer
needs to be a headache for engineers. The NV8288 features the first
deployment of a 3Gb/s HD/SDI chipset, which is the smallest big
router in the world and offers SDI, HD-SDI and ASI formats in a
compact and lightweight package.